What's going to be the biggest different between what we're seeing now and what we'll see in June? Shacknews: You talked about features that are lacking, so that leads me to ask about the 1.0 release coming up. But we would love to make a real, good eSports interface that we can use for events such as this and BlizzCon coming up. We couldn't even make code changes, so that's why a lot of things are the way they are. This interface we're using is something we cobbled together last-second.
I just know we do want to do a lot to level it up. I can't say for sure what we're going to do.
I know Matt Schembari was just down at the town hall, talking about how he wants to polish it, as well. In my opinion, there's a lot of stuff still lacking in the game to help the eSports scene, especially with the interface and UI. We've got BlizzCon coming up and I know we want to make a big push for that, as well. Shacknews: How do you see the eSports side growing in the future? I walked in here thinking, "That's a lot of chairs to fill." Then the line started pouring in and I said, "That's a lot of people! We might do it!" We took off Custom Games and they still found a way, going "If we all queue as five at the right time, we'll still match in together and do our tournament." So we just said, "Oh my goodness, we need to support them." It's been pretty crazy and exciting. Kent-Erik Hagman, Game Designer: Very grassroots-y! (laughs) I mean, what's hilarious is that back early on in the alpha, people started running tournaments and we were actually freaking out, going, "We're not ready for this!" One of the other designers I sat with said, "I feel like Jeff Goldblum from Jurassic Park, it's like no matter what you do, the eSports scene will rise up." Their team was freaking out, because they had to get all the paperwork in. So that leads me to ask, how do you feel the eSports side of Heroes of the Storm has grown since the game first became playable? Shacknews: You have a huge turnout at this event.
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